Comments on: Snapshots from my trip to Dallas http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: KMTBERRY http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28107 KMTBERRY Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:35:27 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28107 I TOO saw the "Condoms To GO" store in Dallas when I went up there to watch my friend Gina dive in the nationals. (We ate at a FABULOUS Thai place right across the street from CONDOMS TO GO. Oh how it chaps my ass to admit that DALLAS wins the Thai restaurant competition, because, you know, by definition DALLAS SUX) It got me to wondering if in Dallas, Condoms are considered too risque to be sold at the drugstore or HEB. So they have to have a seperate store. I TOO saw the “Condoms To GO” store in Dallas when I went up there to watch my friend Gina dive in the nationals. (We ate at a FABULOUS Thai place right across the street from CONDOMS TO GO. Oh how it chaps my ass to admit that DALLAS wins the Thai restaurant competition, because, you know, by definition DALLAS SUX)

It got me to wondering if in Dallas, Condoms are considered too risque to be sold at the drugstore or HEB. So they have to have a seperate store.

]]> By: jc. http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28081 jc. Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:00:22 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28081 Cabbages and Condoms restaurant in Bangkok is pretty good, and, no, it is not a part of the notorious sex trade in Thailand, well not directly. The cabbage soup is very chewy. Cabbages and Condoms restaurant in Bangkok is pretty good, and, no, it is not a part of the notorious sex trade in Thailand, well not directly.
The cabbage soup is very chewy.

]]> By: Ms Kate http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28067 Ms Kate Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:24:42 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28067 Condoms to Go must be like those autoparts stores with the signs that tell you to take their products and use them somewhere else and not work on your car in the parking lot. Meanwhile, my 10 year old is hankering for the night when he is old enough and brave enough to slip out and alter the signs on the car inspection station next to the adult products store. It currently reads "Mass Inspection" (short for Massachusetts). Condoms to Go must be like those autoparts stores with the signs that tell you to take their products and use them somewhere else and not work on your car in the parking lot.

Meanwhile, my 10 year old is hankering for the night when he is old enough and brave enough to slip out and alter the signs on the car inspection station next to the adult products store. It currently reads “Mass Inspection” (short for Massachusetts).

]]> By: witchy-woo http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28065 witchy-woo Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:21:04 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28065 Condoms to Go? What does that mean? Is it as opposed to waiting for someone to come and deliver them to your stated address when you've placed an order by phone, like pizza? Can you not just walk in to any old condom vender's establishment and buy them when you want to? Like a chemists or a supermarket? I don't understand. I'm a Brit. Condoms to Go? What does that mean? Is it as opposed to waiting for someone to come and deliver them to your stated address when you’ve placed an order by phone, like pizza? Can you not just walk in to any old condom vender’s establishment and buy them when you want to? Like a chemists or a supermarket?

I don’t understand. I’m a Brit.

]]> By: greg http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28064 greg Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:16:04 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28064 Cass: Drive north on Burnet Rd. sometime, starting at 45th St. I drive that stretch of road daily, and it seems like I am seeing them all the time ("Megaplexxxxxx! or some such). Or maybe I'm just seeing the same one over and over. It features a picture of a woman from just above the breasts up. What one can see of her is unclothed. She has this wholesome "girl next door" look, which I find rather odd. Maybe the billboard company required it so that it would fit in with the anti-abortion billboards that also line Burnet Rd. This particular billboard is located right near the intersection of Burnet Rd. and Houston St., which happens to be the street that leads to McCallum High School, where I drop my daughter off for school most days. Maybe they are trying to get business and <strike>fresh meat</strike> models at the same time. Cass: Drive north on Burnet Rd. sometime, starting at 45th St. I drive that stretch of road daily, and it seems like I am seeing them all the time (”Megaplexxxxxx! or some such). Or maybe I’m just seeing the same one over and over. It features a picture of a woman from just above the breasts up. What one can see of her is unclothed. She has this wholesome “girl next door” look, which I find rather odd. Maybe the billboard company required it so that it would fit in with the anti-abortion billboards that also line Burnet Rd. This particular billboard is located right near the intersection of Burnet Rd. and Houston St., which happens to be the street that leads to McCallum High School, where I drop my daughter off for school most days. Maybe they are trying to get business and fresh meat models at the same time.

]]> By: Kwillz http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28062 Kwillz Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:34:14 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28062 You should write for Leno. He could really use your help. You should write for Leno. He could really use your help.

]]> By: cycles http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28059 cycles Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:41:55 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28059 Why is it that, out here in licentious atheistic buttfuck-loving California, I've never been assaulted by billboards for topless clubs? Not in the Bay Area, anyway. We have a few such venues, but they're not the gigantic titty-palaces like I've seen in Dallas and Austin. Could it be that, when fundamentalist morality is not crammed down one's throat, through law and sermon, the venues that allow people [men] to rebel against it withers as well? I accuse the something-something for not being able to enunciate that thought better. As a former resident of Dallas and Austin who pines for my homeland, I don't mean to slander Texas in favor of California. But I sure don't miss Billy Graham, blue laws, and "Expose: The Men's Club." Why is it that, out here in licentious atheistic buttfuck-loving California, I’ve never been assaulted by billboards for topless clubs? Not in the Bay Area, anyway. We have a few such venues, but they’re not the gigantic titty-palaces like I’ve seen in Dallas and Austin. Could it be that, when fundamentalist morality is not crammed down one’s throat, through law and sermon, the venues that allow people [men] to rebel against it withers as well? I accuse the something-something for not being able to enunciate that thought better.

As a former resident of Dallas and Austin who pines for my homeland, I don’t mean to slander Texas in favor of California. But I sure don’t miss Billy Graham, blue laws, and “Expose: The Men’s Club.”

]]> By: Cass http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28051 Cass Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:21:34 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28051 I was unconscious of them for years until one day, while driving up to see my parents, the scales fell from my eyes and I was almost nauseous. We don't have any concentrations like that in Austin, though there are a few very ugly billboards out by the airport, and on the rear ends of taxicabs. Just one of the many tiny moments of disillusionment I experienced, on the way to learning all those nice men I saw everywhere in childhood weren't necessarily what they seemed. I was unconscious of them for years until one day, while driving up to see my parents, the scales fell from my eyes and I was almost nauseous. We don’t have any concentrations like that in Austin, though there are a few very ugly billboards out by the airport, and on the rear ends of taxicabs. Just one of the many tiny moments of disillusionment I experienced, on the way to learning all those nice men I saw everywhere in childhood weren’t necessarily what they seemed.

]]> By: dlmiller http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28046 dlmiller Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:59:24 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28046 Dear Twisty, I have recently found your blog and printed off 13 pages for reference. The comments are interesting due to the observations you and the "bloggers" write. Would you be willing to provide me with an interview on your interest in comic books and their characters? Perhaps other bloggers would provide me with an interview? I'm writing an essay, due November 6th, and require, preferrably, a woman's perspective. My essay is titled: "Comic Book Heroines: Why the sex, power and bondage?" If interested my email is: msdlmiller@telus.net Thank you, dlmiller Dear Twisty,

I have recently found your blog and printed off 13 pages for reference. The comments are interesting due to the observations you and the “bloggers” write.

Would you be willing to provide me with an interview on your interest in comic books and their characters? Perhaps other bloggers would provide me with an interview?

I’m writing an essay, due November 6th, and require, preferrably, a woman’s perspective. My essay is titled: “Comic Book Heroines: Why the sex, power and bondage?”

If interested my email is: msdlmiller@telus.net

Thank you,

dlmiller

]]> By: Panzer http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28045 Panzer Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:58:10 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/27/snapshots-from-my-trip-to-dallas/#comment-28045 Cass: Those billboards are also everywhere in Tampa, Florida. I have to avoid Nebraska Avenue whenever I visit, otherwise, you're driving along a road of church-strip club-funeral home-used car dealership-strip club-liquor store. Cass: Those billboards are also everywhere in Tampa, Florida. I have to avoid Nebraska Avenue whenever I visit, otherwise, you’re driving along a road of church-strip club-funeral home-used car dealership-strip club-liquor store.

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